I've just gone onto a 12 month SIM-only contact (ee; unlimited + unlimited + 4GB; £9.99), and now I need to decide whether to buy a new phone or limp on for a while with my almost-three-year-old Moto X-Play.

It's there anything remarkable I should look at? Currently I'm tempted by the new Moto E4 Plus, but who knows? Not me.

I've just gone onto a 12 month SIM-only contact (ee; unlimited + unlimited + 4GB; £9.99), and now I need to decide whether to buy a new phone or limp on for a while with my almost-three-year-old Moto X-Play.

It's there anything remarkable I should look at? Currently I'm tempted by the new Moto E4 Plus, but who knows? Not me.

You, maybe?

I'm on a sim only deal too (similar to yours but massive data allowance) and my 6+ is juuust starting to crash every now and then. Weirdly it's the first iphone I've had that is still as fast as it was on day one but I'm starting to see the writing on the wall for it. I went into Vodafone to get the 7+ and it was £819 and it dawned on me how long I'd been on corporate deals before with new phones given to me every year or so.

People are actually paying £800 for phones! People much poorer than me. It's insane!!

I've just gone onto a 12 month SIM-only contact (ee; unlimited + unlimited + 4GB; £9.99), and now I need to decide whether to buy a new phone or limp on for a while with my almost-three-year-old Moto X-Play.

It's there anything remarkable I should look at? Currently I'm tempted by the new Moto E4 Plus, but who knows? Not me.

You, maybe?

I'm on a sim only deal too (similar to yours but massive data allowance) and my 6+ is juuust starting to crash every now and then. Weirdly it's the first iphone I've had that is still as fast as it was on day one but I'm starting to see the writing on the wall for it. I went into Vodafone to get the 7+ and it was £819 and it dawned on me how long I'd been on corporate deals before with new phones given to me every year or so.

People are actually paying £800 for phones! People much poorer than me. It's insane!!

I'm on a sim only deal and do some sort of Apple lease thing where I pay £40 for my 7+ and then change it every year. I don't know whether it's worth it or not but I like paying 3 as little money as possible

I've just gone onto a 12 month SIM-only contact (ee; unlimited + unlimited + 4GB; £9.99), and now I need to decide whether to buy a new phone or limp on for a while with my almost-three-year-old Moto X-Play.

It's there anything remarkable I should look at? Currently I'm tempted by the new Moto E4 Plus, but who knows? Not me.

You, maybe?

I'm on a sim only deal too (similar to yours but massive data allowance) and my 6+ is juuust starting to crash every now and then. Weirdly it's the first iphone I've had that is still as fast as it was on day one but I'm starting to see the writing on the wall for it. I went into Vodafone to get the 7+ and it was £819 and it dawned on me how long I'd been on corporate deals before with new phones given to me every year or so.

People are actually paying £800 for phones! People much poorer than me. It's insane!!

I'm on a sim only deal and do some sort of Apple lease thing where I pay £40 for my 7+ and then change it every year. I don't know whether it's worth it or not but I like paying 3 as little money as possible

That's interesting thanks - any further deets? . £500/year is still a lot but that's the world we're in!

Disastrous wrote:Incidentally, why do some Scottish people say 'mines' instead of 'mine'? I've always wondered as it's not a highland thing, I don't think.

Interesting, I think if i was saying out loud I would probably say 'mine' but now I'm doing that thing in my head where you can't think how you would actually say it. You've poisoned my brain and now I don't know what to believe about myself.

Disastrous wrote:Incidentally, why do some Scottish people say 'mines' instead of 'mine'? I've always wondered as it's not a highland thing, I don't think.

Interesting, I think if i was saying out loud I would probably say 'mine' but now I'm doing that thing in my head where you can't think how you would actually say it. You've poisoned my brain and now I don't know what to believe about myself.

I've just gone onto a 12 month SIM-only contact (ee; unlimited + unlimited + 4GB; £9.99), and now I need to decide whether to buy a new phone or limp on for a while with my almost-three-year-old Moto X-Play.

It's there anything remarkable I should look at? Currently I'm tempted by the new Moto E4 Plus, but who knows? Not me.

You, maybe?

I'm on a sim only deal too (similar to yours but massive data allowance) and my 6+ is juuust starting to crash every now and then. Weirdly it's the first iphone I've had that is still as fast as it was on day one but I'm starting to see the writing on the wall for it. I went into Vodafone to get the 7+ and it was £819 and it dawned on me how long I'd been on corporate deals before with new phones given to me every year or so.

People are actually paying £800 for phones! People much poorer than me. It's insane!!

I'm on a sim only deal and do some sort of Apple lease thing where I pay £40 for my 7+ and then change it every year. I don't know whether it's worth it or not but I like paying 3 as little money as possible

That's interesting thanks - any further deets? . £500/year is still a lot but that's the world we're in!

I've just gone onto a 12 month SIM-only contact (ee; unlimited + unlimited + 4GB; £9.99), and now I need to decide whether to buy a new phone or limp on for a while with my almost-three-year-old Moto X-Play.

It's there anything remarkable I should look at? Currently I'm tempted by the new Moto E4 Plus, but who knows? Not me.

You, maybe?

I'm on a sim only deal too (similar to yours but massive data allowance) and my 6+ is juuust starting to crash every now and then. Weirdly it's the first iphone I've had that is still as fast as it was on day one but I'm starting to see the writing on the wall for it. I went into Vodafone to get the 7+ and it was £819 and it dawned on me how long I'd been on corporate deals before with new phones given to me every year or so.

People are actually paying £800 for phones! People much poorer than me. It's insane!!

I'm on a sim only deal and do some sort of Apple lease thing where I pay £40 for my 7+ and then change it every year. I don't know whether it's worth it or not but I like paying 3 as little money as possible

That's interesting thanks - any further deets? . £500/year is still a lot but that's the world we're in!

For anyone not into iPhones, I would say that the Oneplus 5 is currently the correct answer to the "What phone?" question. £500 and with very good performance and specs and no pre-installed shite a la Samsung.

In truth it's also the correct answer for most people who are into iPhones, but I'm not going to get into that.

Of course. But again it's more money and didn't seem to offer much more. Dunno!

The one you posted does look pretty good, one thing putting me off is the terrible PPI. The screen on the Honor is excellent, which I find important for something I look at a lot. Go and look at them you lazy shit.

manfromdelmonte wrote:For anyone not into iPhones, I would say that the Oneplus 5 is currently the correct answer to the "What phone?" question. £500 and with very good performance and specs and no pre-installed shite a la Samsung.

In truth it's also the correct answer for most people who are into iPhones, but I'm not going to get into that.

I had a Oneplus 2 and it was great until I started having battery issues with it, in Singapore there is no physical after sales support and as it was two weeks out of warranty the remote support were no help either. Real shame as it felt really well put together and the software was almost bloat free. It was doubly annoying as I'd literally just pulled the trigger on a Oneplus X for my wife before mine decided to shit itself. We're both on Samsung S7's now and they do what we need seem to be relatively drop and water resistant and for the 300 extra to switch to an S8 I can't see any reason to change.

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I just traded 'up' from an Xperia Z3 to whatever the newer one is, also an Xperia of sorts. I only did so because I hate having to get used to how the damn things work only in time to trade again, so I'm constantly playing catch-up. The new one though is crap, it stalls, freezes and wtf is this thing with Messaging? Every time I try to text it asks me if I want to change to messenger, when I say no it doesn't give a shit and stops me from texting unless I say yes. I hate it and the almost Apple-esq software that tries to force you into crap you don't want. With any luck I'll kill it soon and go back to the old one. If it weren't for the photo side of things I'd quite happily go back to an old Motorola V70 I have still with its tiny leather pouch. For some reason this damn thing has decided not to accept emails unless I open the email app and then it floods with all the old emails from the last time I opened it.